A rich tapestry of prayer flags provide the backdrop for a small Buddhist Gompa at the SwayambhuTemple, Kathmandu

Bhaktapur

Hey Mister, What’s your name?” Michael, I replied. The smallest one with the toothy grin yelled, "Michael Jackson!" and spun around in a short dance!

Located about 13 kilometres (8 miles) east of Kathmandu, Bhaktapur is living museum, a World Heritage Site that was reduced to rubble in the 2014 earthquake..

An evening on Gokyo Peak

Everest Park

It was late afternoon when we arrived on Gokyo Peak, a lookout point some 10 kilometers from Everest. A group of trekkers gathered to watch the sunset. In front of us was Everest, juxtaposed against a deep ultramarine sky. To the west. the peaks of Cho Oyu, Gyachung Kang, Lhoste and Makalu, glowed brightly in the orange sunset. I took out my watercolors and started sketching the scene. The temperature was dropping and the paint froze on the paper leaving an intricate patchwork of ice crystals behind. My friend Terry set up his tripod for night shots. The other trekkers left for the village below. We relaxed as night set in with a full moon rising over Everest .

Gokyo Peak is at the end of the Gokyo valley in the Khumbu region of Nepal. The Peak is a 2 hour climb from from the summer grazing village of Gokyo (15,720 ft). to the look out point at 18000 ft. From here, at a distance of 10 kilometers from Mount Everest, one has a panorama of the entire Everest Range. The views from here are spectacular possibly surpassing those from Base Camp.

" I was introduced to Asia in 1980 when I took my first trek in Nepal and spent two months exploring central India. Since thenI keep returning to the labyrinth of Asian cultures! And the reason is simple, because each trip is as fresh and exciting as the first."

"A sense of "mystery" permeates the culture that can only be experienced first hand."

Kathmandu

A weather worn tarp provides an element of color against the backdrop of Durbar Square, in Kathmandu

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Pashupati,the festival

They leaped from the truck bed singing and playing music to honor of Krishna, the deity they carried . Bags of red, yellow, blue pigments were playfully thrown on the crowd, covering everyone in a dusting of red, yellow and blue. They continued singing as they carried Krishna to the river bank and threw it in, laughing and splashing. as the statue floated down stream.

The Ascitic

The sadhu wanted to draw. Igave him a pencil and paper . He sat down on the temple steps in front of me and made a series of repetitive marks in the corner of the paper while chanting a mantra. Tears rolled down his face and onto the paper. I showed him the drawing I did of him and he drew on that too. After some minutes, he fell silent, got up, and left leaving his drawing behind.

Durbar Square, Kathmandu

It started raining, the umbrellas came out and people went about their business without interuption.

Pilgrims, Pashupatinath Thamel, Kathmandu Sadhu, Pashupatinath

The man on the Moped

A man and his son drove up and stopped. The large stalk of bananas they carried, looked awkwardly out of proportion to the small red motorbike they were riding. As if on cue, a group of monkeys appeared and surrounded them. The man would break off bananas and toss them to the screaming monkeys. For a moment it was sheer chaos, and then, when all the bananas were gone, they all disappeared.

They knew the man, he had been doing this for years. They would gather each day and wait for his motorbike with the bananas to appear.

Seoul

Seoul

Pushkar

Dhramsala

Amritsar

Kathmandu

Kathmandu

Udipur

Jeruselam

Kathmandu Patan Bhaktapur Boudhanath Pokhara

Home

Tenjen and Niyma- On the first night of the Langtang trek we stayed in village of Thulo Syabru which was the home of our friends Tenjen and Nyima.

Mustang

As we approached the bridge - Upper Mustang

Workas play

Inside the monastery a group of acolytes beat carpets under the watchful eye of an monk.

The Exhibition (click on the links below to view the images)

Mustang

The trek in Upper Mustang was the fulfillment of a vow I had made to myself in 1980, when I was trekking the newly opened Annapurna circuit. After crossing the Thorong La Pass which borders on Upper Mustang, I had a glimpse of the high dessert Tibetan Plateau. At that time, the area was off limits to Westerners, but I was so enticed by the beauty of what I saw that I vowed to return. Thirty four years later, I did..

Chitwan

The boatman waited quietly while we climbed into his flat-bottomed canoe for the start of the first leg of our trek .

Chitwan National Park lies in the semi-tropical savanna of Nepal, next to the Indian border. In earlier times, this land served as the royal hunting grounds for the Nepalese king. Here, protected endangered animals roam freely within the park. including the Indian rhinoceros, Bengal tiger, and Asia crocodile.

Terrai

The serenity of Chitwan inspired this work.

Langtang

A young Tibetan Mastiff at the Ganjala pass in Langtang.

Buddha

Acrylic and prayer flagson Nepalese paper.

Mustang

Harvest.

Pokhara

Pokhara has six of world's highest mountain peaks eyeing down at you, reflected in the glimmering glacier fed lake surrounded by emerald hills.

The dogs of Nepal

Puppies at The Monkey Temple1

I was walking around the back area of Swyambu Temple, when I came across three puppies playing with a plastic pale. I gently knelt down, placed my camera on the ground and started taking pictures. As soon as they realized what I was doing, they approached ever so cautiously, gazing curiously into the lens.